Researches on micro-organisms : including an account of recent experiments on the destruction of microbes in certain infectious diseases, phthisis, etc / by A.B. Griffiths.
- Arthur Bower Griffiths
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Researches on micro-organisms : including an account of recent experiments on the destruction of microbes in certain infectious diseases, phthisis, etc / by A.B. Griffiths. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAPTER V. PAGE Animal Alkaloids, etc. : Classification of Animal Alkaloids— Production of Ptomaines from Animal Substances by Microbes —Ptomaines and Diseases—Leucomaines—Extractives—Re- searches on Animal Alkaloids from 1820 to Present Time— Recent Researches of Gautier, Etard, Griffiths, Guareschi, Mosso, Pouchet, Brouardel, and Del&zinier—Extraction of Ptomaines, etc. : Methods of Gautier, Pouchet, Brieger, and Luff—Physiological Action of Ptomaines—Bineton the Psychic Life of Microbes—Gautier's Researches on the Leucomaines— The Leucomaines derived from Muscle: Xanthocreatinine, Crusocreatinine, Amphicreatine, and Pseudoxanthine—Classifi- cation of the Leucomaines—The Extractives, or ' the x, y, z's of Pathology '—Chemical Nature of Albumin—Ptomaines from Infectious Diseases : Researches of LuflF, Anrep, Griffiths, Fraenkel, Brieger, Udranszky and Baumann, etc. - - - 86 CHAPTER VI. Special or Soluble Ferments: Vegetable Diastase—The Ferment of M. urece—Micrococcus [Bacillus] diphtheriticiis—The Ferment of B. anthracis~The Enzyme of Malarial Fever—Researches of Drs. Lauder Brunton and Macfadyen—Giglioli's Work on Ferments 142 CHAPTER VIL Various Substances formed by Microbes : Alcohol, Acetic Acid, Lactic Acid, etc., formed by Microbes—Nitrification—The De- composition of Albumin by Microbes—Cellulose formed by Microbes—Cellulose and Tuberculosis: Researches of Freund and Griffiths—Mucous Fermentation—Pigment-forming Microbes— The Microbe of Indigotic Fermentation—Chromidrosis—' The Blood-Wonder ' — Sulphur-forming Microbes — Phosphorescent Microbes : Beyerinck's Researches, etc. ----- 150 CHAPTER VIIL The Action of Heat on Microbes and their Spores : Researi^hps of Parsons and Klein ; Researches of Griffiths, Duclaux, Koch, and others—The Action of Freezing Mixtures on Microbes : Griffiths' Researches—Action of Electricity on Microbes— Action of Light on Microbes: Engelmann's Micro-Spectral Objective—Action of Gases on IVIicrobes : Researches of Pasteur, Bert, Chauveau, Frankland, Griffiths, Forster, and others - - - , 167](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21499536_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
